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• stanleyipkiss - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

  The Designare is exactly what I was looking for in a pfsense router. Two 10gbe ports with a server-grade intel chipset -- no need to get a PCIe card (even though they are cheap now on ebay).

• austinsguitar - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

  sounds like an unbelievably terrible purchase decision but eh, your money down the dump not mine <3.

• PeachNCream - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

  Unlike a commercial router, this will have RGB and angular plastic shrouds to go along with zero promise of sufficient backplane throughput. What's not to love about such a brilliant kludge of a solution to a non-problem?

• imaheadcase - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

  Yah way overkill, i mean its a router for home use. If you really concerned with bandwidth, stop being a cheap old person and get a actual real router.

• Great_Scott - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

  Buying an HEDT system for a firewall is anything but cheap...

• mooninite - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

  10Gbit! Yay!

• UltraWide - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

  Does it also support 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T?

• DigitalFreak - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

  If it's using the X550-AT2 controller then yes, but only in Linux for some stupid reason.

• Great_Scott - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

  Hiding the 2.5 and 5GB capability until the chipset can be re-branded isn't that stupid a reason... after all, they can't charge more unless the name is updated.

• shabby - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

  Will the x299 boards get a price cut too?

• tihom - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link

  That's what I call Optimism at its (Aorus) Extreme!

• Zoly - Friday, October 4, 2019 - link

  I’ll wait for the triple x version..